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Keeping the Toons Looking Great

I will order the Sharkhide cleaner then.  Any suggestions on how much to dilute it based on my photos from today?
 
At minimum, use some CLR to remove the hard water deposits. I had a hard time polishing through the hard water spots. After a dose of CLR, it was a lot easier.
 
Before polishing:



After polishing:



Entire Boat:

 
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What was your process?
 
You sure you don't want to do mine? I pay in many different currencies.
 
My process???

1) Buy a bunch of sh!t.

2) Buy some more sh!t.

3) Get up early and go outside

4) P!ss off the neighbors running grinder for 10 hours.

5) Swear a few times

6) Finally come inside after its getting dark and look in a mirror and see a white guy who is now a black guy.

7) Say "hi" to the wife and realize your voice sounds funny since your vocal cords are covered in black stuff.

8) Take three showers, the last using lanolin hand cleaner for shampoo and the kitchen scrub brush on your face.

9) Have lots of beer because your back hurts so bad you can barely stand up anyway.  Might as well drink heavily.

10) Go outside on second morning and realize you are not even done with the first pontoon.  Mutter "Jesus Christ there are THREE of them".

11) Bitch and cuss before you get started, just to get it out of the way early.

12) Use a mask this time so your not breathing tiny microscoping black aluminum particles.

13) Listen to neighbors crack funny jokes.  Tell them you are here all week and tip the waitresses.

14) Get grinder caught in the tricky spots because you did all the easy parts yesterday.

15) Guess how many times that will happen before you drop and break the grinder.

16) Start to tell yourself no one can see BOTH pontoons at the same time, so no one will know if you quit half way through.

17) Cuss out guys on forum that talked you into doing this (ha ha)

18) Put shark hide on.  Glue fingers together.

19) Use rubber gloves to put shark hide on.

20) Realize the "black" stuff magically appears when you put on shark hide

21) Make up some new swear words

22) Grind off all the shark hide and start over

23) Realize you are on day 3 after seeing same neighbors walking their dog for the sixth time

24) Swear you will never do this again.

25) Swear you will finish it this fall.

26) Realize you can't even see your pontoons when you are inside the boat.

27) Take photos for the forum from far enough away that no one can see what it REALLY looks like.

28) Take boat back to marina.

29) Throw grinder in fire pit.

30) Log in and tell Jared there's no way in hell you'll do his pontoons.
 
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Rockie69 said:
You sure you don't want to do mine? I pay in many different currencies.
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Jared - There's no way in hell I'll do your pontoons.
 
Not sure I understand what you're telling me. I'll check back tomorrow.
 
LOL!   That's funny stuff right there....but seriously what products did you use?
 
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The recommended white airway wheels and white rogue. Also used some Tripoli and black emery rogue to try to speed things up. Glad I had a couple white airways. I bought a pound of the white. Used about a fourth of it. The rest will last the rest of my life, just like my gallon of 303.
 
Now that you have explained it that doesn't sound too bad kaydano especially since you will probably only have to do it 2 or 3 times a summer to keep it looking like that <_<
 
I was under the impression it was a one time deal?
 
Are you happy with the results?
 
Shark hide makes it a one time deal.

I'm overall happy with the results if I don't look too close. It was a lot more work than I thought it would be. It took time to figure out the little tricks to running the grinder. Kinda like running a bead of caulk or paint, if that makes sense. You have to learn how to run a bead of both the rouge and the shine... Hard to explain if you haven't done it before. I also wish I had spent more time cleaning off the black before putting on the shark hide. I used some paint thinner but it didn't seem to leave a clean finish.
 
You're supposed to use that Pro-50 from Zephyr (or paint thinner like I used last year) in between buffing wheels and also def. before using the Sharkhide.  Yours looks really good though.
 
I did use paint thinner.
 
kaydano said:
My process???

1) Buy a bunch of sh!t.

2) Buy some more sh!t.

3) Get up early and go outside

4) P!ss off the neighbors running grinder for 10 hours.

5) Swear a few times

6) Finally come inside after its getting dark and look in a mirror and see a white guy who is now a black guy.

7) Say "hi" to the wife and realize your voice sounds funny since your vocal cords are covered in black stuff.

8) Take three showers, the last using lanolin hand cleaner for shampoo and the kitchen scrub brush on your face.

9) Have lots of beer because your back hurts so bad you can barely stand up anyway.  Might as well drink heavily.

10) Go outside on second morning and realize you are not even done with the first pontoon.  Mutter "Jesus Christ there are THREE of them".

11) Bitch and cuss before you get started, just to get it out of the way early.

12) Use a mask this time so your not breathing tiny microscoping black aluminum particles.

13) Listen to neighbors crack funny jokes.  Tell them you are here all week and tip the waitresses.

14) Get grinder caught in the tricky spots because you did all the easy parts yesterday.

15) Guess how many times that will happen before you drop and break the grinder.

16) Start to tell yourself no one can see BOTH pontoons at the same time, so no one will know if you quit half way through.

17) Cuss out guys on forum that talked you into doing this (ha ha)

18) Put shark hide on.  Glue fingers together.

19) Use rubber gloves to put shark hide on.

20) Realize the "black" stuff magically appears when you put on shark hide

21) Make up some new swear words

22) Grind off all the shark hide and start over

23) Realize you are on day 3 after seeing same neighbors walking their dog for the sixth time

24) Swear you will never do this again.

25) Swear you will finish it this fall.

26) Realize you can't even see your pontoons when you are inside the boat.

27) Take photos for the forum from far enough away that no one can see what it REALLY looks like.

28) Take boat back to marina.

29) Throw grinder in fire pit.

30) Log in and tell Jared there's no way in hell you'll do his pontoons.
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:lol:  I had to sign in JUST to say "HOW FUNNY THAT SUMMARY IS"! (Tears rolling out of my eyes!) Every time I read "Glue fingers together" I laugh all over again :lol:   :lol:   :lol:    :lol:   (sounded like a biotch of a job but at least you have a sense of humor!)
 
Glad you enjoyed the humor. It took me about a week and a half just to SEE the humor in it!
 
I would feel the same way!! At least it's in the past now, just an (un)fond memory! haha
 
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